> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.gilespcroft.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # How to solve any problem - URL: https://www.gilespcroft.com/how-to-solve-any-problem/ - Published: 2026-03-12T07:00:32.000Z - Updated: 2026-08-31T23:59:36.000Z - Description: Let's start by looking at what problems actually are 🤷🏻‍♂️ - Author: Giles P Croft - Tags: Life change, IMPLICATIONS, Thought realisation, Attention, Moods, Psychology, FOUNDATIONS, Neuroscience, Principles, Sydney Banks, Wisdom, #weekly-digest Working as an Innate Health coach, people generally come to me to help them solve problems. Whether it's a habit or behaviour that's limiting their life, a feeling of being stuck; having trouble sleeping or inter-personal difficulties; being overwhelmed by strong emotions; chronically over-thinking; struggling with workload or productivity or just life in general, the question always boils down to: > *“How do I change this, Giles?”* And I'm pretty certain I can indeed help, *whatever* the problem is. Not because I know what the solution is—I honestly don't have a clue, and shy away from [offering advice](https://www.gilespcroft.com/the-red-flag-of-should/) at all costs!—but rather because of what problems actually *are*, and where solutions come from. ## What are problems? If we take a trip to dictionary corner and look up the etymology of the word ‘problem’, we find this: 📖 ****Problem**: from ***pro** *:* ‘forward’ + ***ballein** *:* ‘to throw, or reach’ So, at the most fundamental level, a problem is the mind, observing a situation (let's call this ‘A’), measuring it up against all of its conditioned beliefs about how things ‘should’ (🚩) be (we'll call this ‘B’), finding it lacking, then [fishing around in the past](https://www.gilespcroft.com/going-fishing/) to ‘throw, or reach’ that old data into a future that, naturally, it can't control. But that it thinks it has to arrange in a particular way, ‘in order’ for you to be ok. (When [you're *already* ok](https://www.gilespcroft.com/being-ok-whatever/).) It doesn't know how you're going to get from ‘A’ to ‘B’, it [thinks that *it* has to do it](https://www.gilespcroft.com/i-cant-do-it/) all, and hey presto, you've got yourself a ‘problem’. 🤷🏻‍♂️ ## Where do solutions come from? Keeping it *really* simple and remembering that our *entire* experience, from birth to death, consists of moments, where we're either: - *in* the flow of life and present to that, or - in the flow of life and at the same time being *distracted* from that, by what the mind is saying *about* life …then the answer to that question becomes a bit clearer. Because we've established that the solutions don't come from ‘what the mind is saying’ (that's old, stale, very [limited data](https://www.gilespcroft.com/working-on-limited-data/)) so, logically, the solutions we seek can not lie in *thinking* analytically about our problems. They therefore *must* come from being present to life itself, *without* the distraction of the mind's commentary. ## But we can't just *not* think, can we?! Ugh, minds and their ceaseless objections to what they don't understand! 🙄 (It's ok, I've got one too.) Of course we can't *not* think. Thought is one of the necessary [3 Principles](https://3pgc.org/faq/?ref=gilespcroft.com) of experience. Without thought there is no experience to be had!! But (and this is such a big ‘but’, I'm going to give it a little box of its own)… 💡 While fresh new solutions are delivered to us through the **medium* of thought, these solutions don't **originate* from the analytical mind. The true *source* of solutions, is life-energy itself (‘Universal Mind’ in 3 Principles terms); ‘wisdom’, ‘common sense’, ‘intuition’, ‘grace’, or ‘insight’ if we're really into using labels today. So we solve our problems by going back to basic principles. By knowing where to look. By using the [right tool for the job](https://www.gilespcroft.com/right-tool-for-the-job/); something I wrote about in a previous Daily Reminder that I'll link to below. 💟 Giles SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY REMINDERS newsletter [![CTA Image](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/f3/9bf3d316-7d32-494b-814f-a7d94d6358c3/content/images/2025/12/DR_Lockup-Black-1.png)](#/portal/signup) Want to start **your* days with helpful, insightful content like this? The Daily Reminder is a quick, lighthearted email that arrives in your inbox, to help keep you grounded in reality, so that you get to **‘Think less, and live more.’* **“They feel like a moment of stillness in a world of madness.” \~* Neil, UK **“One of those small things with big impact. Honestly, just sign up!”* \~ Paula, UK [GET YOURS NOW ](#/portal/signup) ### Related [Right tool for the jobMaking decisions is just as much about knowing what \*not\* to do ✋🏼![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/f3/9bf3d316-7d32-494b-814f-a7d94d6358c3/content/images/icon/DR_Lockup-Black-3-449.png)The Daily RemindersGiles P Croft![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/f3/9bf3d316-7d32-494b-814f-a7d94d6358c3/content/images/thumbnail/photo-1669023414162-5bb06bbff0ec)](https://www.gilespcroft.com/right-tool-for-the-job/) ‘Problem-solving’ / ‘Decision-making’, same-same.